2010 Bordeaux En Primeurs First Look and Exclusive Offers

Wine Spectator: Dense, with a dark, smoldering feel as charcoal and coffee weave around a core of mulled fig, blackberry and boysenberry fruit. The long, muscular finish features singed iron ...

About this Wine: Low vineyard yield is maintained by ploughing the soil, de-leafing, and crop thinning. Grapes are picked and sorted by hand.

Wine Spectator: Solid, if a bit forward, with a brioche and lemon curd profile, offering extra blanched almond, star fruit and lemon curd notes that hang on the plump, lightly toasted finish....

Wine Spectator: Very polished and stylish, with a velvety feel to the layers of crushed plum, currant and blackberry, while bittersweet cocoa and black licorice glide in on the gorgeous, blac...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: 2010: A tiny 2.47-acre vineyard owned by Tony Balu, the manager of Clos Fourtet, it will be almost impossible to find this 2010 given the fact that yields were 16 hectoliters ...

Wine Spectator: This is fresh and engaging, with firm but lively singed alder and apple wood notes framing a core of plum, red currant and steeped black cherry fruit. Offers pepper and tobacc...

Wine Spectator: A dark, winey style, with macerated black currant and fig notes and a tongue-coating note of tar and espresso. Stays fresh, despite its weight, with a long, black fruit-filled...

About this Wine: 70% Merlot and 30% Cabernet Franc

About this Wine: Purchased in 1998 from the daughter of the local blacksmith - hence the name - the initial vineyard was primarily based on a gravel outcrop, assembled over the generations wit...

Wine Spectator: A tangy style, with lemon zest, gooseberry and white peach flavors backed by a jicama note on the finish. The crunchy feel begs for food. Drink now through 2014. -JM

Wine Spectator: Solid, if a bit chunky in feel, with a slightly squared-off charcoal and ganache frame surrounding a core of dark plum, black currant and licorice root. Shows more austerity t...

Wine Spectator: Really vibrant, with lovely notes of plum, violet and cherry preserves laced with chalky cut that stretches out the finish. Very, very solid. -J.M.

Wine Enthusiast: Rich more than dry, the palate a very spicy character, the texture full, unctuous, but more than just sweet.

Wine Spectator: This is tangy, with red currant, roasted mesquite, sanguine and tobacco notes. Already shows range and definition, with solid grip. -J.M.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The more beefed-up, structured, tannic and slightly oakier 2010 Haut-Brisson Reserve ratchets up the level of concentration. The fruit seems darker and more foreboding, and th...

Wine Spectator: Lightly firm plum skin and cherry pit notes weave through the core of plum sauce, currant and blackberry fruit, with a perfumy tobacco-tinged finish. A touch old-school. -JM

Wine Spectator: Dense, juicy and inviting, with bouncy briar, blackberry, steeped black currant and melted black licorice notes framed by roasted apple wood and graphite notes. The finish cou...

Wine Spectator: A dark, sultry wine, with a smoky frame to the crushed plum, anise and blackberry fruit core, while ganache and black tea weave in on the finish. Offers a velvety feel, but th...

Wine Spectator: Features a dark currant and blackberry coulis core, surrounded by charcoal, singed savory and light coffee notes. The solid, firm, taut finish should let this linger in the ce...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The Chateau Lafaurie Peyraguey has an ebullient nose of Tropicana, dried honey and quince that intensifies in the glass whilst maintaining impressive definition. The palate is...